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An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions  —  Starlink’s effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing… Continue Reading →

A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won’t say how its users’ data was leaked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won’t say how its users’ data was leaked  —  Three years after a hacker first… Continue Reading →

Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team  —  Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu… Continue Reading →

The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor (New York Times)

New York Times: The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor  —  Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app… Continue Reading →

Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions  —  Samsung and SK Hynix have been storing used machines in warehouses as US-China tensions rise … Continue Reading →

The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model  —  Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top… Continue Reading →

X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting  —  The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy  —  In his quest… Continue Reading →

A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers (Reuters)

Reuters: A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers  —  Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes… Continue Reading →

Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days  —  Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber… Continue Reading →

Three years after Spotify’s original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: Three years after Spotify’s original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature  —  I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to do this again. … Continue Reading →

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